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ST OF THE 

Soldiers* qf the 
Revolution 

From WORCESTER 
MASSACHUSETTS 



arid Memorial Exercises held 
M^y thirty, nineteen hun- 
dred and one !M !N !N !N 



A LIST OF THE SOLDIERS 



IN THE 



WAR OF THE REVOLUTION 



FROM 



WORCESTER, MASS. 



WITH A RECORD OF THEIR DEATH AND PLACE OF BURIAL. 



COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY 

MARY COCHRAN DODGE. 



PUBLISHED BY COL. TIMOTHY BIGELOW CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS OF THE 
AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



p. 



PREFACE. 

With the organizing of the Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, D. A. 
R., the work of locating the graves of Worcester's revolutionary soldiers 
was begun. The list itself was first compiled from the State Archives 
and a few other authentic sources. No records other than the original 
ones were used except in one instance, viz. — the roll of fifty-four men 
enlisted from Worcester under Capt. William Gates, Col. Jonathan Hol- 
man's regiment, who marched July 17, 1776, for service in New York. 
Capt. Gates' record for this time can be found in the State Archives, 
but no roll of his men is to be found there. In 1876 Mr. Albert A. 
Lovell included in his history of Worcester in the War of the Revolution, 
a copy of this roll, the original of which he found in the possession of 
the American Antiquarian Society. This roll cannot now be found, and 
but for the copy made by Mr. Lovell the names of seventeen of these 
Worcester men whose only enlistment this was, would be unrecorded. 

After completing the list of men credited to Worcester, came the more 
arduous task of identifying these men, tracing many of them to other 
States, obtaining records of death, and locating graves. To accomplish 
this the sources of information have included town, church, family and 
county court records, registries, private papers and local newspapers. 

While realizing that the most exact accuracy must be observed to 
make such a record of value, the compiler feels that even with the greatest 
care errors are unavoidable where so many sources of information have 
been called upon. , 

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the kindly and valuable aid so cordi- 
ally given by the many different persons upon whom she has called for 
information. It is hoped the publishing of these lists will bring to 
her knowledge dates of death and places of burial of those she has been 
unable to ascertain. With this in view certain information has been in- 
cluded in the lists which might lead to the identification of those whose 
death dates could not be found. 

In 1901 the City of Worcester appropriated a sum of money with which 
bronze markei's were purchased and placed at each grave located in 
Worcester and the " South Parish" (until 1778 a part of Worcester), now 
Auburn. A bronze tablet was also placed on the "Common" in 
memory of seven soldiers buried there. 

MARY COCHRAN DODGE. 

Worcester, June, 1902. 



A. 



This list includes the "minute and militiamen" who marched April 
19, 1775, on the alarm at Lexington, and enlisted men belonging to or 
credited to Worcester. The names with an asterisk were from the " South 
Parish," now Auburn. 
Allen, Salmon. 
Annum, Cuff. 
AvES, John. 
Bacon, William. 
Baird, Daniel. 



"Reported died, April 19, 1779." 



Ball, Joseph. 
Ball, Samuel. 
Bancroft, Jonas.* 

Bancroft, Jonas, 2nd* 
Bancroft, Jonathan.* 
Bancroft, Reuben (or Ray- 
ham).* 
Bancroft, William.* 
Barnard, Richard, (black) 
Barrett, Israel. 
Barton, Timothy. 
Benglaris, Pomp. 
Bennet, Benjamin. 
Bennet, Joseph.* 
Bennet, Samuel. 
Betterly, Thomas. 
Betterly, William. 

BiGELOW, GeRSHOM, Jr. 

BiGELOw, Timothy. 

Booth, Robert. 
BoYDEN, Darius.* 
BoYDEN, Joseph.* 
BoYDEN, Peter. 

Bradley, John. 
Brooks, Nathaniel. 

Brown, Samuel. 

Brown, William. 
Buckler, James. 
Buxton, William. 



Died, Worcester, Dec. 9, 1819, aged 77. 

Rural Cemetery, Lot 563. 
Living in Concord, Vt., 1825. 

Died, Auburn, Jan. 2, 1821, aged 76. 
Center Cemetery. 

Living in Gardner, 1803. 



Died, Dana, Aug. 18, 1834. 

Living in Winchendon, 1784. 

" Reported killed July 22, 1777." 

Living in Newfane, Vt., 1784. 

Died, Royalston, 1807-8. 
Died, Worcester, April 4, 1790, aged 50. 
Old Common. 



Died, Auburn, Mar. 18, 1783, aged 39. 
1777, aged 



32. 



Died, Auburn, July 28, 

Center Cemetery. 
Living in Newfane, Vt., 1801. 
Died, Worcester, Feb. 3, 1838 

Rural Cemetery. 
Died, Worcester, May 25, 1785, aged 41 

Old Common, No. 107. 



aged 97. 



Carter, Benjamin.* 
Carter, Timothy. 
Case, James. 
Chadwick, Daniel. 

Chadwick, David. 
Chadwick, Isaac. 
Chamberlain, Wilson. 
Chapln, Benjamin. 
Chapin, Eli. 

Chase, Ameriah. 
Christian, John (also 

Sutton). 
Clark, David. 
Clark, Elisha. 
Clark, Jonas. 
Clark, Joseph. 

Clark, Samuel. 

Clews, Thomas. 
Cole, John. 
C omens, Daniel.* 
Connor, Edward. - 
Cook, Robert. 
Cook, Samuel. 
Cowden, William. 

Crafts, Edward. 



Living in Newfane, Vt., 1785. 
Died, Auburn, Aug., 1784. 

Died, Worcester, May 23, 1836, aged 84. 
Hope Cemetery, Tier G. 

Died, , 1794, aged 57. 

Died, Worcester, Aug. 21, 1836, aged 78. 

"Died in service Aug. 25, 1776." 

Died, Worcester, Mar. 7, 1830, aged 76. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier D. 
Living in New Salem, 1792. 



of 



Died, Auburn, Dec. 26, 1807, aged 

Center Cemetery. 
Died, -Aratettf a - , Oa. 21, 1812, ^ 

- C c u Lc i C e mete r y . 



Died, 



1796. 



Crawford, Robert. 

Crosby, Elisha. 

Crosby, Simon (also of 

Boston) . 
Crowle, Andrew.* 
Crowle, John. 
Cuff, William. 
CuMMiNGS, Eluah. 
Cummings, John. 
Cunningham, Joseph. 
Curtis, Joseph. 
Curtis, Oliver. 
Curtis, William. 
Cutler, Jonathan. 
Cutler, Nathan* (also of 
Sutton). 



Died, Petersham, Aug. 25, 1838. 

" Died, Albany Grand Hospital, Oct. 21, 

1777." 
Died, Middlesex, N. Y., April 11, 1806, 

aged 60. 
Died, Royalston, Sept. 10, 1785. 



Died. Pelham, Mar. 10, 1815. 



Cutting, Benjamin. 
Cutting, Francis. 
Cutting, Isaac. 
Cutting, Zebulon. 
Dana, William. 
Dawes, Cato. 
DiBBiLL, Cato. (black) 
Donehue, Philip. 
Draper, Richard. 
Drury, John. 
Drury, Thomas, Jr. 
Duncan, Samuel. 

Duncan, Simeon.* 
Duncan, Simeon, Jr. 

Dunham, Elisha. 

DuTTON, Asa. 

DwELLE, Joseph. 

Eaton, Samuel. 

Eaton, Thomas. 

Eaton, Uriah (also of Hol- 

den and Sudbury). 
Eddy, Levi.* 

Edmunds, John. 
Elder, John. 
Ephraim, Ebenezer. 
EsTABROOK, Benjamin. 
Fairfield, Samuel. 
Feether, John, (or Fiafter) 
FiLMORE, George. . . - - 
FiSK, Ebenezer. 
FiSK, James. 
FiTTS, Robert.* 

Flagg, Abel. 

Flagg, Benjamin. 

Flagg, Benjamin, Jr. 

Flagg, Josiah. 
Flagg, Nathaniel. 
Flagg, Phineas, 

Forbush, James. 



Died, Belpre, O., 



-, 1809. 



Died, Auburn, July 6, 1836, aged 91. 
Died, Dummerston, Vt., July 28, 1820, 

aged 72. 
Died, Auburn, June 19, 1781, aged 56. 
Died, Worcester, Feb. 22, 1836, aged 80. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier F. 



Died, Oakham, April 27, 1839. 
Died, Worcester, Aug. 25, 1783. 



Died, Auburn, May 6, 1821, aged 76. 
Center Cemetery. 

Died, Worcester, Feb. 13, 1819. 

" Reported died Jan. 4, — ."(probably 1778) 



JJfed'. filuc^<Ay, Sijit. Jf- /^sz- <^t^ ?^. 



Died, Auburn, Dec. 29, 1831, aged 74. 

West Cemetery. 
Died, Worcester, Sept. 18, 1775, aged 22. 

Old Common, No. 109. 
Died, Worcester, Oct. 8, 1818, aged 95. 

Hope Cemetery, Lot 962. 
Died, Worcester, Mar. 9, 1819, aged 73. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 

Died, July, 1810. 

Died, Worcester, Oct. 1, 1791, aged 39. 
Old Common, No. 63. 



Foster, Elisha. 
Fuller, Elisha. 
Gale, Daniel. 
Gale, Henry.* 
Gale, Noah. 
Gamble, Joseph. 
Gates, Asa. 
Gates, James. 
Gates, Josiah. 
Gates, Paul. 
Gates, Samuel. 

Gates, Silas. 
G.\TES, Simon, 

Gates , Stephen . 
Gates, Thomas. 
Gates, William. 

Gates, William. 
Glasco, Simon. 
Gleason, David. 

Gleason, Isaac. 
Gleason, John. 
Gleason, Jonathan. 

Gleason, Joseph. 
Gleason, Phinehas. 

Gleason, Reuben. 
Gleason, Thomas. 
Gleason, Vernon. . 
Goodwin, John. 
Gray, John. 
Gray, Joseph. 
Griggs, Gideon. 
Griggs, Samuel. 
Griggs, William. 
GuRNEY, Jacob. 
Hair, Edward. 
Hair, John. 
Hall, John. 
Hamilton, Moses. 
Hamilton, Samuel. 
Hamilton, William. 
Hardy, Peter.* 



Died, Monson, Nov. 21, 1835, aged 78. 



Died, Franklin, Vt., June 25, 1826, aged 71. 
Died, Worcester, Dec. 19, 1831, aged 77. 
Rural Cemetery, Lot 315. 

Died, Worcester, Feb. 2, 1849, aged 93. 
Hope Cemetery. 

Died, Rome, N. Y. 

Died Worcester, July 7, 1811, -aged 76. 
Hope Cemetery, Tier C. 



Died, Auburn, April 29, 1833, aged 86. 

Center Cemetery. 
Died, Worcester, A u g. 11, 1832, aged 70. »J^/<v 
Died, Worcester, Aug. 20, 1839, aged 75. 
Died, Worcester, June 4, 1827, aged 82. 

Hope Cemetery, Lot 739. 

Died, Worcester, Dec. 26, 1809, aged 56. 
Hope Cemetery, Tier A. 



U/'ei.JliyO.'t^- hl<ty //. /S'X'h 



•/■'/ 



-, 1807. 



Died, Worcester, Oct. - 

Died, Worcester, Feb. 24, 1831. 



Harrington, Asa 
Harrington, Joshua, Jr. 
Harrington, Josiah, Jr. 
Harrington, Nathaniel. 

Harrington, Noah. 

Harrington, Samuel. 

Harrington, Silas. 

Harrington, William. 
Harris, Daniel. 
Harris, Thomas, (black) 
Harris, William. 
Hastings, Ebenezer. 
Haven, Daniel. 
Hawes, Eleazer. 
Hawes, Elijah. 
Healy, Jedediah. 

Hemmenway, Adam. 
Hemmenway, Jeffrey. 

Hemmenway, Samuel. 
Henry, Silas. 
Heywood, Daniel. 

Heywood, Nathaniel. 

HiGGiNS, Archibald. 

Hinds, John. 
HoLBROOK, Abel. 
HoLBROOK, Eleazer. 
HoLMAN, Samuel.* 

Holmes, Gershom. 
Holmes, Jacob, Jr. 
Houghton, Levi (also 

Stow). 
Howe, Ezekiel, Jr. 
Howe, Joel. 
Hubbard, Jonas. 
Hubbard, Levi. 

Hubbard, Reuben. 



Died, Pelham, Oct. 



-, 1817, aged 66. 



Died, Worcester, Feb. 28, 1831, aged 89. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier G. 
Died, Worcester, July 18, 1832, aged 73. 

Providence St., Millbury. 
Died, Worcester, Mar. 27, 1838, aged 84. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
Died, Worcester, June 15, 1831, aged 79. 

Rural Cemetery, Lot 764. 



Died, Worcester, Oct. 22, 1807. 
" Reported died May 27, 1775." 



Died, Worcester, Feb. 7, 1821, aged 63. 
Hope Cemetery, Tier D. 

Died, Worcester, Aug. 15, 1819, aged 82. 
Hope Cemetery, Lot 1245. 

Died, Princeton, Aug. 5, 1832. 

Died, Worcester, Dec. 15, 1809, aged 55. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier A. 
Died, Shrewsbury, Nov. 18, 1834, aged 86. 

Center Cemetery. 
"Reported right arm shot off Oct. 6, 1775, 

and as having died Oct. , 1775. 

Died, Worcester, . 



Died, Auburn, Dec. 29, 1793, aged 48. 
Center Cemetery. 

Died, Worcester, Jan. 18, 1803, aged 67. 



of 



Living in Gardner, 1824. 

" Mortally wounded, Quebec, Dec. 31,1775." 
Died, Paris, Me., Feb. 18, 1836, aged 73. 

Tomb at homestead. 
Died, Norway, Me., before 1802. 



Hunter, John. 
Jennison, Daniel.* 

Jennison, Peter.* 
Jennison, Robert. 
Johns, Isaac. (Indian) 
Johnson, Amos. 
Johnson, Benjamin. 
Johnson, Daniel. 
Johnson, John. 
Johnson, Nathan. 
Johnson, Samuel. 
Johnson, Uriah. 
Jones, Asa. 
Jones, Isaac. 
Jones, Noah. 
Jones, Phinehas. 



Died, Auburn, Feb. 4, 1839, aged 81, 
Center Cemetery. 



Died, Worcester, Jan. 15, 1807, aged 44. 



Died, Worcester, Mar. 22, 1814, aged 66. 
Hope Cemetery, Tier A. 



Jones, Samuel. 

Jones, Thomas. 

Jones, William. 

Jordan, Edmund. 

Jupiter, (black) 

Kannady, John, (or Kennedy) 

Kelso, Hugh. 

Kennedy, James. 

Kennedy, William (also of 

Sutton). 
Kingman, Isaac. 
Kingsbury, James. 
Knapp, Cyrenus. 
Knight, Artemas. 
Knight, Edward. 

Knight, Isaac. 
Knight, Thomas. 
Knight, William. 
Knower, John. 
Lane, John. 
Lanman, James. 
Larnard, Samuel* (or Lear 
ned, also of Oxford). 

LOVELL, EbENEZER. 

Lynde, Thomas. 
McCoNKEY, William. 
McCracken, Samuel. 



Died, Worcester, Sept. 15, 1819, aged 69. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier H. 
Died, Worcester, Feb. 7, 1812. 



Died, Shrewsbury, 



1817. 



Died, Worcester, Dec. 6, 1817, aged 88. 

Old Common. 
Died, Leicester, Dec. 24, 1811. 

Living in Holden, 1785. 



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McFarland, James. 

McFarland, William. 

McGuiRE, John. 
Mahan, John. 

Mahan, Samuel. 
Marsh, Ebenezer. 
Mattel, William. 
Miles, William. 
Miller, Ephraim. 
Miller, Joseph. 
Mills, Ephraim. . 
Moore, Daniel. 
Moore, James. 
Moore, John. 
Moore, John. 
Morse, Isaac. 
Morse, Joseph. 
Morse, Thomas. 
Muzzy, Seth. 
Nash, Jacob. 
Nazro, Nathaniel. 
Newton, Samuel. 
Nichols, Jonas.* 
Nichols, Thomas. 
Niles, Silas. 
NoYES, Bela. 
Noyes, John. 
Partridge, Seth. 
Patch, Joseph. 

Patch, Nathan. 



Died, Worcester, Dec. 22, 1835, aged 77. 

Hope Cemetery. 
Died, Worcester, Jan. 27, 1805, aged 83. 

Hope Cemetery, Lot 1489. 
Died, Worcester, Oct. 30, 1831, aged 85. 
Died, Worcester, Oct. , 1789, aged 32. 

Old Common, No. 11. 



Died, Worcester, May , 1793, aged 54. 

Died, Worcester, Oct. 30, 1831, aged 85. 



Perry, Josiah. 
Peter, John. (Indian) 
Phillips, Jonathan. 
Phillips, Josiah. 
Pierce, Amos. 
Pierce, David. 
Pierce, John. 
Pierce, Joseph. 
Pierce, Josiah. 
Pierce, Oliver. 
Potter, James (also of 
Holden) . 



Reported killed." 



Died, Worcester, Mar. 17, 1828, aged 72. 



Died, Worcester, April 8, 1836, aged 76. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
Died, Worcester, June 22, 1808, aged 72. 

Rural Cemetery, Lot 98. 
Died, Worcester, . 



Died, Worcester, Mar. 2. 1808, aged 63. 



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Powers, Nicholas. 
Pratt, Isaac* 
Priest, Samuel. 
Prue, Gershom.* 
Putnam, Eli. 
QuiGLEY, James. 
QuiQLEY, John. 
Raymond, William. 
Reed, Joseph. 
Rice, Jonathan. 

Rice, Josiah. 
Rice, Lemuel. 

Rice, Phinehas. 
Rice, Reuben. 
Rice, Timothy. 
Richards, David. 

Richards, Dick, (black) 
Russell, Benjamin. 

Savage, Francis. 
Severy, Thomas. 
Shield, William. 
Slater, Peter. 



Smith, 


Aaron. 


Smith, 


Amos. 


Smith, 


Elisha. 


Smith, 


Ithamar. 


Smith, 


Jacob. 


Smith, 


Joel. 


Smith, 


John. 


Smith, 


Phinehas. 


Smith, 


Robert. 


Smith, 


Simon. 


Smith, 


Solomon. 


Smith, 


Titus. 


Smith, 


William Spencer 


Snow, 


William, Jr. 


Spring 


;, John. 


Spaulding, Reuben. 


Stearns, Asa. 


Stearns, Daniel. 


Stearns, Samuel, Jr. 



Living in Marietta, O., 1788. 



Died, Auburn, May 3, 1834, aged 70. 
Center Cemetery. 

Died, Worcester, May 17, 1806, aged 66. 
Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 



" Mortally wounded, Quebec, Dec. 31,1775." 
Died, Worcester, Jan. 29, 1829, aged 78. 
Hope Cemetery, Tier E. 

Died, Boston, Jan. 4, 1845, aged 83. 
Granary Burial Ground, No. 100. 



Died, Worcester, Oct. 13, 1831, aged 71. 
Hope Cemetery. 



Died, Worcester, Jan. 5, 1777, aged 33. 

r?vin^-ia Heath, iSe&.X/.^^.. /5^ t/. 
Died, Worcester, July 4, 1807, aged 80. 
Old Common, No. 41. 



Died, Chazy, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1852, aged 93. 
Died, Newport, N.H., May 4, 1849, aged 93. 
Died, Claremont, N.H., , 1840, aged 85. 



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Stkarns, William. 
Stevens, Cyprian. 
Stewart, William. 
Stone, Aaron. 
Stone, David.* 
Stone, Israel.* 

Stone, Jonathan.* 

Stone, Jonathan, Jr.* 

Stone, Joseph.* 

Stone, William. 

Stone, vis. 

Stowell, Daniel. 

Stowell, David. 
Stowell, William. 

Stowers, Richard. 
Streeter, Joseph.* 
Sturtevant, Noah. 
Sturtevant. Samuel. 
Swan, Edw^ard. 
Swan, James. 
Taylor, James. 
Taylor, John. 
Taylor, Thomas. 
Thomas, David. 
Thorp, Joseph. 
ToTMAN, John (orTatman) 

Treadw^ell, William. 

Trowbridge, William. 

Turner, sha. 

Walker, George. 
Walker, William. 
Ward, Asa. 

Ward, Phinehas. 

Ward, William. 
Warren, Abiah. 
Warren, John. 



Died, Worcester, Jan. 10, 183S, aged 92. 



Died, Auburn, Jan. 3, 1844, aged 91. 

Center Cemetery. 
Died, Auburn, Dec. 21, 1806, aged 81. 

Center Cemetery. 
Died, Auburn, Nov. 24, 1809, aged 59. 

Center Cemetery. 
Died, Auburn, Feb. 22, 1837, aged 79. 

Center Cemetery. 



Died, Paris, Me., Sept. 20, 1828, aged 70. 
Stowell Cemetery. 

Died, Paris, Me., Jan. 8, 1829, aged 72. 
Stowell Cemetery. 



Died, Auburn, April 15, 1787, aged 42. 



-, 1834, aged 72. 



Died, Providence, 



Died, Worcester, Oct. 3, 1833, aged 88. 

Tatman Burial Ground. 
Died, Worcester, April 10, 1796, aged 46. 

Old Common, No. 5. 
Died, Worcester, Sept. 30, 1833, aged 82. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier C. 



Died, Worcester, June 27, 1818, aged 70. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier 13. 
Died, Worcester, Nov. 20, 1808, aged 79. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 



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Warrkn, Samuel. 
Waters, William. 
Weeden, Job. 
Weld, Edward Church. 
Wesson, Samuel. 
Wesson, Silas. 
Wesson, Thomas. 
Wheelock, Joseph. 
Whitney, Benjamin, Jr. 
Whitney, Ebenezer. 

Whitney, Joshua. 

Whitney, Samuel, 
Whitney, Samuel, Jr. 
Whitney, Silas. 
Wilder, Moses. 
Wilder, Reuben. 
Wiley, Samuel, 
Williams, Richard. 
WiLLiNGTON, Daniel. 
Wilson, Alexander. 
Wiser, James. 

Wis WALL, Daniel. 
WiswALL, Ebenezer. 

Wolf, John. 
Works, Jacob.* 
Works, Samuel. 
Wyman, Reuben. 
Young, William, Jr. 



" Killed, Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775." 



Died, Worcester, July 30, 1823, aged 86. 
Died, Worcester, Jan. 17, 1836, aged 76. 

Rural Cemetery. 
Died, Worcester, May 7, 1809, aged 72. 

Hope Cemetery, Lot 310. 
Died, Gilsum, N. H., June 1, 1831. 



Died, Stockbridge, Vt., before Nov., 1793. 

Died Worcester, Sept. 17, 1823, aged 70. 

Died, Auburn, April 24, 1811, aged 58, 
Center Cemetery. 

Died, Worcester, Jan. 20, 1822, aged 67. 
Hope Cemetery, Lot 310. 

Died, Leicester, June 13, 1808, aged 87. 



B. 

This list includes those who at time of enlistment were not inhabitants 
of Worcester, but later resided and died here, and whose graves have 
been marked. 
FowLE, Curtis. Died, Worcester, Mar. 18, 1825, aged 80. 

Hope Cemetery, Tier B. 
Merrifield, Timothy. Died, Worcester, May 6, 1806, aged 68. 

Rural Cemetery, Lot 233. 
Died, Worcester, Aug. 29, 1849, aged 86. 

Rural Cemetery, Sanford Lot. 
Died, Worcester, April 4, 1831, aged 82. 

Rural Cemetery, Thomas Tomb. 
Died, Worcester, July 29, 1831, aged 80. 
Rural Cemetery, Lot 745. 



Smith, Ethan. 



Thomas, Isaiah. 



Warren, William. 



EXERCISES 

IN COMMEMORATION OF REVOLUTIONARY HEROES HELD AT 
CITY HALL, MAY 30tH, 1901, UNDER THE AUSPICES 
OF THE HISTORICAL AND PATRIOTIC SOCIE- 
TIES OF WORCESTER, MASS. 



Song by the school children of Worcester under the direc- 
tion of Mr. Seth Richards. 

" O Columbia the Gem of the Ocean." 



ADDRESS. 

BY THE PRESIDING OFFICER, 
DANIEL KENT, ESQ. 

Ladies ajid Ge?itlenien : We had hoped that these exercises 
mig^ht be held upon our historic Common beside the monument 
which marks the resting place of Col. Bigelow, a man who 
served with distinguished valor in the War for Independence. 
The weather, however, has forced us to meet here in the City 
Hall. I think it is very appropriate we should gather in this 
place, for this building stands upon the site of the Old South 
Church in which were held many of the meetings of those 
stirring times which led up to and extended through the Revo- 
lution. It was in this close vicinity that the minute-men 
gathered on the nineteenth of April, 1775, and it was here ser- 
mons were preached and prayers were offered up for the safety 
of the country. 

This meeting has been arranged under the auspices of the 
historical and patriotic societies of the city. Some two years 
ago, one of our sister organizations, the Colonel Timothy 
Bigelow Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion, undertook the commendable task of obtaining as accurate 
a list as was possible of the soldiers who enlisted for the 
Revolution from Worcester, and ascertaining where those 



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soldiers died and where their graves were located. This has 
been an arduous labor and faithfully performed. Upon its 
approximate completion two months ago the Chapter invited 
the other local patriotic and historical societies to join with 
them in exercises commemorative of those Revolutionary- 
heroes. 

No complete list of the Revolution's soldiers from Wor- 
cester has ever been published. Their names have only been 
preserved on fragmentary records, some of them long since 
forgotton. Now these have been gathered together by the 
secretary of this Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution and to her should be the praise that at last, over 
one hundred and twenty-six years after the Revolution began, 
we have, perhaps, as complete a list as we ever can obtain at this 
distant day. I wish to read the names of those whose graves 
have been located in Worcester, and also of those whose death 
records are in Worcester, but whose place of burial is unknown. 
The total number enlisting from Worcester was three hundred and 
seventy-five. Of these, sixty-one graves have been located in 
Worcester ; twenty-one have been located in other places ; 
eleven soldiers were killed or died in service ; twenty-six death 
records are recorded at the City Hall, but the graves are un- 
located ; leaving two hundred and fifty-six whose place of death 
is not known. 

Of the sixty-one graves located in Worcester, eight are on 
the Common, namely : Timothy Bigelow, Phineas Flagg, Robert 
Smith, Samuel Brown, Ebenezer Lovell, William Treadwell, 
Abel Flagg, and John Mahan. 

Ten are in Rural Cemetery : Isaiah Thomas, Daniel Baird, 
Silas Harrington, Timothy Merrifield, Nathaniel Brooks, Nathan 
Patch, Samuel Gates, Ebenezer Whitney, WilHam Warren, 
Ethan Smith. 

Twenty-seven are in Hope Cemetery : Benjamin Flagg, 
Daniel Chadwick, Jedediah Healey, William Trowbridge, Eli 
Chapin, Jeffrey Hemmenway, Asa Ward, Daniel Heywood, 
Phineas Ward, Benjamin Flagg, Jr., Phineas Jones, Ebenezer 
Wiswall, William Gates, Edward Knight, Simon Gates, Jonathan 
Gleason, Willian McFarland, Joseph Patch, Phineas Gleason, 
Lemuel Rice, Joshua Whitney, Nathaniel Harrington, David 



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Richards, Simeon Duncan, Jr., Samuel Harrington, Peter 
Slater, Curtis Fowle. 

In the Tatman Burying Ground at Quinsigamond one Revo- 
lutionary soldier rests, — John Tatman. 

In 1778, the South Parish was, as you know, set off to the 
town of Ward, and in 1837 the name of the town was changed 
to Auburn. Of the Revolutionary soldiers buried in Auburn 
who enlisted in Worcester prior to the division, there are 
fifteen graves located : Jonathan Stone, Sanuel Clark, Jonathan 
Stone, Jr., James Wiser, Peter Boyden, Jonas Bancroft, David 
Gleason, Levi Eddy, Daniel Jennison, Jonathan Rice, Samuel 
Holman, Israel Stone, Joseph Clark, Robert Fitts, Joseph Stone. 

This completes the list of the sixty-one graves which have 
been identified. As I said before, there are also twenty-six 
other death records in the City Hall, but it seems impossible 
to tell where these twenty-six patriots are buried. I think it 
would be well in this presence to read their names because we 
are always looking for some clew that will locate them either 
here in Worcester or wherever they may rest, and possibly by 
reading this list some of you may recognize the name of a 
lineal ascendant or collateral relative. If so, you will do a 
great kindness, not only to the Chapter which is preparing this 
list, but to the public at large, by giving us any information 
you may possess. These are the twenty-six : David Chadwick, 
Isaac Chadwick, Robert Cook, Thomas Eaton, John Elder, 
Nathaniel Flagg, Paul Gates, Asa Gates, Isaac Gleason, John 
Gleason, John Hair, Edward Hair, Jacob Holmes, Jr., Ebenezer 
Hastings, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Knight, John McGuire, John 
Moore, John Moore, Thomas Nichols, John Pierce, Joel Smith, 
Daniel Stearns, Benjamin Whitney, Jr., Daniel Wellington, 
William Stearns. 

I understand that it is the intention of the Colonel Timothy 
Bigelow Chapter to publish very soon the complete list of 
Worcester's Revolutionary soldiers which they have gathered 
together. High among the names upon that list stands that 
of Col. Timothy Bigelow. Of his wise counsel and inspiring 
enthusiasm; of his heroic service and loyal devotion to the 
cause of Independence, the other speakers will, I doubt not, 
speak in fitting terms. Other heroes, too, are there,— men who 



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gave their all to their country that we their children might in- 
herit freedom. 

On that list is the name of Major William Treadwell. 
William Treadwell was a private in Capt. Timothy Bigelow's 
Company of Minute-men. On the return from the Lexington 
Alarm he enlisted as Lieutenant in Capt. Edward Crafts' Com- 
pany of Artillery, Col. Thomas Crafts' regiment. He was a brave 
man, a born soldier. He served through the war and lived to 
come home. He was one of the founders of the Worcester 
Artillery. Like many another hero of that war, he lost all his 
property. Theirs were in truth experiences which tried men's 
souls. He died at last in 1795, broken-hearted. 

There was Major Edward Crafts : Major Crafts was a prom- 
inent man here in those times, yet, I doubt if more than a 
few of our citizens know there was such a Revolutionary soldier 
who went forth from Worcester. He was the intimate friend of 
John Hancock and Samuel Adams, and a brother of Col. 
Thomas Crafts, of Boston. He fought at Bunker Hill. He has 
a glorious record. He was a man of superb physique, but he 
returned from his long term of service with shattered health 
and bearing the burden of heavy financial losses caused by the 
depreciation of the Continental currency. He later emigrated 
to Murrayfield, now the town of Chester, and from there, his 
sons having gone further on to New York state, he went with 
them to Middlesex, N. Y., where he died at the early age of 
sixty. His children pressed still further on and settled in Ohio, 
and every year his descendants gather there to honor the 
memory of Major Edward Crafts, their Revolutionary ancestor, 
and his brave wife, his equal in patriotism, — Eliot Winship 
Crafts. 

There was Col. Benjamin Flagg who marched as captain 
of the second company of minute-men on that memorable 
nineteenth of April. He afterward commanded a regiment 
from this county and won glory for himself as well as for the 
town. 

It was Capt. Jonas Hubbard of Worcester who on that 
awful march under General Arnold, one of the most terrible 
marches ever luade in any war, said, " I do not value life or 
property, if I may secure liberty for my children." Those 



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were the words of a patriot. While he lay under the ramparts 
at Quebec, mortally wounded, his comrades came to carry him 
away, and he said, "I came to fight with you; I will stay 
here to die with you." There spoke the hero. 

These are a few of the names, unfamiliar to us now, but 
which we trust through the work of our historical and patriotic 
societies will become again household names. These were the 
men who took up the work of former generations, of the 
earlier settlers of the town of Worcester and carried it forward. 
They were equal to the task. Gloriously did they perform 
their duty. Bear in mind that at this time Worcester was a 
town of less than two thousand inhabitants, with about two 
hundred and fifty voters. It has grown and grown until now 
we have over one hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants. 
As the years have passed men have arisen to meet the questions 
which have come, and have solved them to the city's good. 

Mr. Mayor, we trust and believe that the present incum- 
bent of the highest office in the gift of the city, when his term 
shall close, will take an honorable position with those honor- 
able men who have preceded him. When the subject of decor- 
ating and marking these Revolutionary soldiers' graves was 
first brought to your attention, you took a deep interest in it, 
and it is largely, perhaps, owing to your influence that the city 
has to-day marked with appropriate markers flfty-four Revolu- 
tionary graves, and placed a tablet to commemorate those 
seven upon the Common. Ladies and Gentlemen, I know you 
will all be glad to hear from one who has taken such deep interest 
in this cause, and I take great pleasure in introducing to you 
his Honor, Mayor Philip J. O'Connell. 



ADDRESS 

BY 
MAYOR PHILIP J. O'CONNEL. 

Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens : 

It is very fitting that on this day set apart by the Common- 
wealth for the purpose of affording the people an opportunity 
of paying a tribute of love and honor to the men who, in the 



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hour of the nation's peril, offered their lives in defense of 
country that we should assemble for the purpose of unveiling 
this simple memorial to the soldiers of the Revolution. 

Though this recognition on our part of the valor and 
patriotism of the heroes of the Revolution is somewhat tardy 
after a lapse of a century and a quarter, it yet is no less appro- 
priate and opportune to-day. 

Next to the love which I have for my country is my love 
for the Commonwealth and this beautiful city of Worcester, 
and it has always been to me a matter of the utmost satisfaction 
and pride to realize that the men who lived in this city in 1775 
and 1776 were as brave and loyal and patriotic as they were. 

When one stops to realize that the greater portion of the 
able-bodied men of the town of Worcester were at one time 
or the other enrolled in the army of Washington, then can be 
appreciated the spirit of the Worcester citizens of 1775. 

The soldiers of the Revolution have done more than all 
other agencies combined for human rights throughout the 
civilized world. 

They asserted and demonstrated beyond question the 
eternal truths of the Declaration of Independence, that all 
men were created free and equal and had an inalienable right 
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This influence 
can be seen not only here in free America but in the democratic 
spirit that to-day animates very largely the people of England 
herself. 

It can be seen in the liberalizing tendency of the people 
of Germany, and the example they furnish to the world was 
followed in the Republic of France. 

To you, who, by virtue of your kinship to the soldiers of 
the Revolution are privileged to membership in the patriotic 
societies represented around me, I extend my congratulations 
upon the successful completion of your desires; and I con- 
gratulate the members of the City Government on their 
wisdom and foresight in erecting this memorial. It will long 
serve as an incentive to patriotic endeavor and as a reminder 
of the great debt which we owe to the men whose courage and 
valor made possible this free republic. 

As the Chief Executive of this city, I can safely promise 



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for myself and those who are to follow me in this honorable 
office to guard, cherish and protect it for the years to come. 

SONG, 
" The Soldiers Grave." 



Presiding Officer: 

Strange as it may seem, but few of the members of our 
patriotic societies in Worcester are descended from Worcester's 
Revolutionary heroes. Those patriots, or their descendants, 
have passed to other places and the descendants of men who 
fought and enlisted from other towns and other cities have 
come to Worcester and have made this their home. 

We have with us to-day one whose Revolutionary ancestor 
was at that time on the frontier of Vermont and took part in 
the Battle of Bennington. His father fought in our Civil War. 
He himself showed his love and devotion to his country when 
in our late war with Spain, he served as chaplain of a New 
Hampshire regiment. 

I take great pleasure in presenting to you this afternoon 
the Chaplain of the 2nd Regiment, the Rev. Frank L. Phalen, 
of Worcester. 



ADDRESS. 

BY REV. FRANK L. PHALEN, 
CHAPLAIN SECOND REGIMENT, M. V. M. 

Sacred is the ground upon which we meet. Hallowed and 
glorious is the hour. The soil we stand upon is the peaceful 
sepulchre of American soldiers. It is the last resting place 
of those who faced danger and death that freedom might not 
die and that democracy might not be strangled in the womb of 
time. 

We have assembled here to mark the graves and to com- 
memorate the deeds of the men of Worcester who fought and 
suffered and died in that long and bitter war which established 
the independence of this republic. The many years that have 
fled, and the mighty transformations that have occurred have 



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not destroyed our admiration and affection for the brave 
soldiers who, over a century and a quarter ago, marched from 
this Common to defend and maintain the sacred principles of 
liberty and justice. Their deeds are our most precious legacy. 
Their graves are the shrines which awaken the noblest emotions 
which are native and honorable to the human heart. 

We tread softly here, amid the thronging train of memories. 
We bow our heads before the God of Battles and of Nations, 
and thank him for the heroic men and the heroic deeds of the 
brave days of old. 

This historic Common, this Memorial day, — the monument 
and witness of another mighty crisis and victory in the life of 
our Republic, — and this patriotic occasion, conspire to fill our 
minds with tender and grateful memories. The majestic spirit 
of the past speaks to our listening ears. The recollection of 
the great and terrible conflict through which our fathers and 
mothers fought their way to victory and independence, unrolls 
before our vision like a scroll. The over-arching sky, the firm 
and beautiful earth, and the very atmosphere in which we are 
embosomed, are eloquent with voices of heroic history. 

" Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls, 
O, kingdom of the past." 

The fair and patriotic women of Worcester who trace their 
ancestry to the soldiers of the Revolution, have done a noble 
service, the influence of which will abide through generations 
yet unborn, in undertaking and carrying forward the arduous 
yet commendable duty which brings us here on this memorable 
occasion. 

We should be lacking in the qualities of appreciation and 
gratitude, if we did not pay a tribute of admiration to the 
patriotic women of this city, who conceived and have brought 
to completion this sacred and ennobling recognition of our dead 
but not forgotton soldiers. 

Our city honors herself also, and adds another proud page 
to her patriotic annals, by lending her official sanction and sup- 
port to the respect we here pay to the valor and achievements 
of her faithful soldiers. 

The memorial tablet we have here unveiled will perpetuate 



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the names, the sacrifices and the achievements of the men who, in 
the times that tried men's souls, dared for a high cause to ven- 
ture their fortunes and their lives. Our words and our names 
may be forgotten, but the luminous fact that Worcester grate- 
fully remembered her soldiers of the Revolution and did honor 
to their memories will remain on the historic records, which 
will perpetuate the story of this eventful hour. 

The veil which hides the past refuses to be lifted ; yet we 
are permitted to recall the fact that this goodly home of ours, 
now a proud and prosperous city, — rightly named "The Heart 
of the Commonwealth," — was founded by men of sterling 
quality and high character. Here beside our beautiful lake, 
the early settlers of the 17th century built their primitive 
dwellings and established their homes. But the little village of 
Quinsigamond, which was the pioneer of our splendid city, did 
not escape the terrible and treacherous attacks of the Indians, 
who descended upon it on the second of December, 1675, and 
left its six or seven dwellings in ruins. But when the power 
of the Indians was broken by the death of their great chief 
Philip, there was a speedy renewal of the plan to settle and 
establish a town in this locality. 

In 1684 the General Court granted the request of the com- 
mittee, Daniel Gookin, Daniel Henchman and Thomas Prentice, 
that their plantation at Quinsigamond be called " Worcester." 

This is commonly supposed to have been in honor of the 
city of Worcester in England; "but," says Senator Hoar, 
whose authority I am now following, "there is a tradition that 
the name was given by the committee to commemorate the 
battle of Worcester, ' the crowning mercy' where Cromwell 
shattered the forces of Charles II, and as a defiance to the 
Stuarts." 

I think we are justified in believing that it was the 
memory of the great victory for civil and religious liberty 
which God had vouchsafed to the Puritan over Charles Stuart, 
and not out of any loyalty to the English throne, — which was 
the great distinction of the English city that the three stout 
soldiers of the committee who founded this city " desired to 
perpetuate." 

Accepting this interpretation of the origin of the name of 



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our city, and taking; it for granted that the spirit which ani- 
mated the founders was transmitted to their successors, we can 
understand why it is that Worcester has ever been at the front 
in every patriotic and righteous cause wherein the rights of 
humanity have been concerned. 

In all those formative and silent years from the founding 
of the first plantation to the decade that preceded Lexington 
and Concord, the student of our annals will find that the men 
and women of this community were alive to the g:reat political 
problems which were pressing for solution. 

In his noble address on the 200th anniversary of the city 
Senator Hoar said : 

"The people of Worcester knew well on what ground they 
stood. The great debate was conducted at every fireside. One 
spirit moved through them all. They debated the great ques- 
tion of resistance, as though God were hearkening; and they 
took counsel reverently with their ministers, and the aged, and 
the pious, and the brave, in their villages. The shire of Wor- 
cester, in August, 1774, set the example of a county Congress, 
w^hich disclaimed the jurisdiction of the British House of Com- 
mons, asserted the exclusive right of the colonists to originate 
laws respecting themselves, rested their duty of allegiance on 
the charter of the province, and declared the violation of that 
charter a dissolution of their union with Britain." 

The activity and patriotisiu of Worcester's men and 
women were so marked and noticeable, that General Gage, the 
British commander in Boston, sent his spies here; and "it was 
rumored in August, 1774, that he meditated sending part of his 
army to execute the regulating act, which forbade town meet- 
ings except by the written leave of the governor." 

Think of the citizens of Worcester waiting to hear from a 
British governor whether or not they might be permitted to call a 
towm meeting ! We can understand the spirit in which they 
received these decrees of a government enthroned on an island 
beyond the Atlantic, when we learn that "they purchased and 
manufactured arms, cast musket balls, provided powder and 
openly threatened to fall upon any body of soldiers who should 
attack them." 

It is no wonder that the hour came when a people so in 



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love with liberty and so unwisely affronted by a stupid and 
foolish system of oppression and extortion, should have reached 
the point where they were ready with musket and sword to 
resist the British government. Let no one think, however, 
that the Revolution was a sudden or spasmodic outbreak of 
rash and thoughtless forces and men ! It was nothing of the 
sort. It was the spontaneous and normal development of the 
free spirit of an enlightened and progressive people who would 
not submit to the arbitrary and tyrannical exactions of political 
despotism. It was the logic of events, and not the conscious 
purpose of the people which at last braced and heartened the 
colonists to attempt and to carry to a successful issue the war 
for independence. The first resistance was not intended to 
strike at the sovereignty of the British crown, but to vindi- 
cate the rights of the people ; and it was only by an inevitable 
and manifest destiny that the colonists came slowly to believe 
in complete independence. 

The American Revolution was not the product of passion 
nor malice. It was the mature and deliberate protest of a peo- 
ple who were determined to maintain their rights whatever the 
cost. Our fathers did not unsheathe the sword in the stress 
and strain of that wild frenzy which sometimes seizes a nation 
and plunges it into a disastrous war. They resorted to arms 
with prayers on their lips, with the consciousness of fighting 
for a just cause thrilling their souls, and with that personal 
consecration to liberty which makes heroes of the humblest 
men. 

In Lincoln's History of Worcester, there appears this 
stirring paragraph, which is of particular interest on this 
occasion : 

" Before noon, on the 19th of April, 1775, an express came 
to town, shouting as he passed through the street at full speed, 
' To arms ! to arms ! the war 's begun ! ' His white horse bloody 
with spurring, and dripping with sweat, fell exhausted by the 
church. Another was instantly procured, and the tidings went 
on. The bell rang out the alarm, cannon were fired, and mes- 
sengers sent to every part of the town to collect the soldiery. 
As the news spread, the implements of husbandry were thrown 
down in the field ; and the citizens left their homes, with no 



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longer delay than to seize their arms. In a short time, the 
minute-men were paraded on the green, under Capt. Timothy 
Bigelow," — the brave soldier who sleeps beneath yonder monu- 
ment. "After fervent prayer by Rev. Mr. Maccarty, they took 
up their line of march to the scene of conflict." 

Lexington and Concord aroused the colonies, and Worcester 
then (as later in the great Rebellion and the late war with 
Spain) was quick and vigorous in her efforts to put her brave 
sons into the field, commissioned by her prayers and sympa- 
thies to battle for the right. 

What a picture it would be if we could reproduce that 19th 
of April, 1775, and see Worcester as it was in those heroic 
days, and see this Common, with Captain Timothy Bigelow 
and his brave companions-in-arms gathering here to begin 
their march towards Boston ! Did I say Boston ? Yes ! And 
not only toward Boston but toward the glory and immortality 
which shall ever abide like a halo around the names and deeds 
of those who fought in that splendid struggle for liberty. 

In that day Worcester was only a small town of about two 
thousand inhabitants, and yet before the conflict with Great 
Britain had ended, she had sent forth into the Continental Army 
almost four hundred soldiers. What a magnificent record! 
What a testimony to the spirit which dwelt in our noble ances- 
tors ! 

On the 19th of April, 1861, yonder monument just men- 
tioned which guards the grave and perpetuates the memory of 
Colonel Timothy Bigelow was dedicated. "Only two days be- 
fore," says the record kindly furnished me by Mr. Nathaniel 
Paine, " the Worcester Light Infantry, who were expected to 
have joined in the exercises of the day, had started with the 
Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, for the defence of 
Washington, and at the very time the exercises of dedication 
were going on, they were bravely fighting their way through 
the streets of Baltimore." 

The venerable ex-Governor Lincoln, speaking on that day, 
was introduced as one who had a distinct personal recollection 
of Colonel Timothy Bigelow, and inasmuch as there are many 
here who at this hour remember Governor Lincoln, a few words 
from his speech may serve to make us feel that, after all, 



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Colonel Bigelow and the soldiers of the Revolution buried on 
this Common are not so far removed even from the Worcester 
of to-day as we sometimes think. 

' Colonel Bigelow," said Governor Lincoln, " was a type 
of a generation now passed away. Of such, in patriotism and 
valor, were the corps of minute-men under his command, and 
the Train Band of the brave Captain Benjamin Flag-g, who 
alike, on the 19th of April, 1775, at the horseman's cry ' To 
arms ! ' hastened with no delay but for prayer and benediction, 
to join their brethren of Lexington and Concord in resistance 
to tyranny and the oppressor's sword. Such was the towns- 
man and friend of Captain Bigelow% the intrepid and beloved 
Captain Jonas Hubbard" (whose brave and noble story Mr. 
Kent has just told you), " his inferior only in rank, his com- 
panion and comrade in the dreadful winter's march through 
the wilderness to the siege of Quebec ; who in the midst of 
hardships and privations almost unequalled in the experiences 
of human suffering, uttered the noble declaration, ' I do not 
value life and property if I may secure liberty for my children ;' 
and who, when mortally wounded at the foot of the ramparts, 
in the storming of the fortress, said to his men who sought to 
remove him from the field, ' I came to fight with you, I will stay 
here to die with you.' And he did ; and beside him, under 
the frowning walls of Quebec, and in the midst of a fierce 
snow storm, died two other of Worcester's patriot soldiers." 

At Saratoga, at Valley Forge, at Monmouth and at York- 
town, the soldiers of Worcester were among the bravest of 
the brave, and earned not only the commendation of Washing- 
ton and the praise of their contemporaries but the perpetual 
gratitude of all who shall ever enjoy the liberties and blessings 
they so heroically and victoriously vindicated. Surely no higher 
patriotic service could have been done by the Daughters of 
the American Revolution than to summon the people of Wor- 
cester to stand by the graves of these modest yet brave 
Continental soldiers to whom we render with deeper apprecia- 
tion as the years fly away, our reverence, our love and our 
praise. 

"On Fame's eternal camping ground 
Their silent tents are spread, 
And memory guards, with solemn round, 
The bivouac of the dead." 



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Now, as in the years that are gone, the women of this 
community have been the pride and inspiration of every move- 
ment or reform looking to the uplifting and ennobling of 
humanity. The spirit that animated their hearts in 3775 live§ 
in 1901. It cheered and sustained the soldiers of the Union in 
1861-1865 and it burst forth again in 1898. 

God be praised for the soldiers who have fought for our 
flag and our rights on every field, or on the sea, but praise and 
love to our women, living and dead, whose devotion and 
patriotism chasten and strengthen our hearts. 

O, Worcester ! thou art the guardian of a glorious past ! 
Thou art the interpreter to children yet unborn, of the storms 
and trials through which, under God, our fathers and mothers 
advanced to peace, and power and prosperity. Once thou wert 
a weak and humble daughter of Massachusetts ; Now, thou art 
grown to noble womanhood with the consciousness and respon- 
sibility of material and political superiority. May thy proud 
boast in future days (as it is thy joy to-day) be, like that of 
the mother of the Roman Gracchi, who could say that her most 
precious treasures were her children. 

Men and women of Worcester, there are no dividing bar- 
riers of creed, or color, or race, as we stand here to-day beside 
these graves of our heroes. In the fervent gratitude and 
affection of our patriotism, all political, social and religious 
distinctions are ignored and forgotton. We only remember 
that we share the same holy memories and are heartened by 
the same great hopes. In the language of our martyred Lin- 
coln, we here " dedicate ourselves anew to the majestic ideals of 
liberty and democracy, pledging our faith to the principles of 
our fathers, that a government of the people by the people 
and for the people shall not perish from the earth." 

" Our Father's God from out whose hand 
The centuries fall like grains of sand 
We meet to-day, united, free, 
And loyal to our land and thee. 

"O, make thou us, through centuries long, 

In peace secure, in justice strong ; 
Around our gift of freedom draw 

The safeguards of thy righteous law ; 
And, cast in some diviner mold, 

Let the new cycle shame the old." 



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Presiding Officer 



It was our intention, had these exercises been held on the 
Common, by the Col. Timothy Bigelow monument, to have 
unveiled the tablet which has been placed upon the fence in 
memory of the seven Worcester soldiers who lie buried upon 
the Common and whose graves were levelled when the old 
cemetery was removed. After the singing of another song 
by the school children, we shall be pleased to have all those 
who desire, go and view the tablet, which is now covered with 
a flag. 

Now let us all join with the school children in singing 
that grand old song, "America." 



